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Leslie is a writer, artist and psychotherapist. She developed Inner Art Journal as an online journal devoted to seeking and sharing direct insight. Writing poetry to mark moments of perception and gratitude, her work can be found in the Buddhist Poetry Review, Haibun Today, Atlas Poetica, Lynx, Ribbons, Prune Juice, A Hundred Gourds and Notes from the Gean. She studied with John Gardner and Liz Rosenberg at Binghamton University where she obtained her BA in Creative Writing and Literature in 1981.

Nelima is a poet and psychotherapist living and working in upstate New York. She writes gorgeous, minimalistic tanka poetry some of which can be viewed in this journal.

Esra is a Ph.D. candidate at Binghamton University. Currently, she lives in Turkey and teaches sociology at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. Her writings on art and politics have appeared in Radikal Newspaper, Demokrathaber.net and JGCinema.com. Some of her tankas can be viewed in Inner Art Journal.